Karl Schirrmacher (mwerks@pacbell.net)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:52:54 -0600
It seems its time for me to stop lurking about and partake... I'm in the
same boat as a lot of you (it seems), as I've watched a period of music pass
slowly into history and dusty crates--and when I listen to it every once in
a while, I find I'm reminiscing (a sure sign). What I found happening is the
same thing that keeps me from enjoying many current mainstream jazz artists,
and that's a lack of the artists creatively making it their own. There's a
period when a movement happens, and this burst of creativity happens. It's
big, and beautiful, and it throws out this infectious feeling. After a
while, though, the scene starts to sound like itself, and people move on to
other, fresher vibes (e.g. the move from AJ to DnB). IMHO, this is what
happened to that "classic" sound--at least as far as what's been hitting my
ears.
As for the "classic" sound and the record business, that's subject to the
rules of capitalism, which revolves heavily around "The Market" (i.e. all of
those kiddies snatching up the latest thing hitting Tower Record's Listening
Station). Fortunately, a good groove is tough to ignore--which is what
really keeps most of us in the music. Unfortunately, it has to get into
enough ears for "The Market" to know how good it is (and those ears are very
crowded already). Quite the tall order.
<sigh> Sadly, c'est la vie in the music biz...
keep your rhythm,
Karl M. Schirrmacher
mwerks@pacbell.net
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